"From chauvinism to chiliasm, from Epicureanism to existentialism, and from nationalism to nominalism, we live in a wilderness of dogmas and doctrines, creeds and credos. But just what do all these -isms mean? What's the difference between an anarchist and an anarcho-syndicalist, a Platonist and a Neo-Platonist? And how modern can Modernism really be if all the famous modernists are dead? Some everyday -isms, the likes of materialism, naturism and surrealism, present few problems. In the darkest depths of the forest of ideas lurk -isms which even the most cutting-edge of metropolitan intellectuals might struggle to define snappily. Isms and Ologies lists them all and explains their salient features clearly and accessibly if you want to lend a veneer of intellectual rigour to your small talk, or if you are genuinely curious to know the defining features of fauvism and the crucial characteristics of phenomenology." . . . . "-Isms and -ologies : 453 difficult doctrines you've always pretended to understand" . . . "Dictionaries"@en . . "Dictionaries" . "Terms and phrases" . . . "Isms and ologies"@en . . . "Wörterbuch" . "Isms and ologies : 453 difficult doctrines you've always pretended to understand" . . . "Isms and ologies 453 difficult doctrines you've always pretended to understand" . "Isms & ologies : 453 difficult doctrines you've always pretended to understand" . "Isms & ologies : 453 difficult doctrines you've always pretended to understand"@en . . . . . . . . . "Englisch" . . "Phraseologie" . . . .